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By: Nancyhttp://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/06/22/panel-enlarges-landmark-zone-and-cites-2-bronx-sites/comment-page-1/#comment-698599
Fri, 25 Jun 2010 19:48:54 +0000http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/06/22/panel-enlarges-landmark-zone-and-cites-2-bronx-sites/#comment-698599I went to the school right across the street from the Noonan Plaza from 1963-1971and the building was just beautiful and the apartments were just luxurious this was the version of a young child. What happened?
]]>By: Halhttp://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/06/22/panel-enlarges-landmark-zone-and-cites-2-bronx-sites/comment-page-1/#comment-696857
Wed, 23 Jun 2010 19:42:22 +0000http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/06/22/panel-enlarges-landmark-zone-and-cites-2-bronx-sites/#comment-696857If you like Art Deco at all, Noonan Plaza looks wonderful. I didn’t know about this building. One quibble: I doubt that it “exemplifies the type of housing built in the early 1900s to house the influx of immigrants to the city.” Maybe the minority of immigrants who’d prospered, more likely their children, could move there. When it opened, Noonan Plaza had doormen and a number of luxuries. Moving from the Lower East Side, say, to the west Bronx was a move into the upper middle class, with fresh air, elevators, and no street peddlers.
]]>By: C Brooklynhttp://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/06/22/panel-enlarges-landmark-zone-and-cites-2-bronx-sites/comment-page-1/#comment-696097
Wed, 23 Jun 2010 17:52:16 +0000http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/06/22/panel-enlarges-landmark-zone-and-cites-2-bronx-sites/#comment-696097Yes I would love to go back to when NYC was the world leader in culture. Music, art, theater and comedy were all at there height in the bad old days.

Currently NYC culture consists of soulless hipsters and the financial set who think reality TV is interesting.

My point is that the city is great because of people not buildings. That our heritage is people and not buildings. If you can not wrap your around that I can not explain it to you anyway.

]]>By: Tracyhttp://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/06/22/panel-enlarges-landmark-zone-and-cites-2-bronx-sites/comment-page-1/#comment-696045
Wed, 23 Jun 2010 16:04:52 +0000http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/06/22/panel-enlarges-landmark-zone-and-cites-2-bronx-sites/#comment-696045Love the photo, but what does it look like now?
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Wed, 23 Jun 2010 15:58:46 +0000http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/06/22/panel-enlarges-landmark-zone-and-cites-2-bronx-sites/#comment-696041I am not going to argue the points like the lawyers, but for the record I want to say I thought the 70s were great years in New York City; I would gladly return to them.

If I could go back in time, however, I think the decade of that century that I might most like to experience would be the 1920s. If you didn’t like the 70s, I am sure you would be appalled, if not made absolutely nauseous, by the New York of the 1920s.

But here’s the amazing thing you simply won’t believe: New York has not changed that much from the 1920s through the 1970s through today.

The best question: what will we be saying about today’s Nw York in the year 2020?

We’ll have perfect vision by then, won’t we.

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Wed, 23 Jun 2010 15:17:54 +0000http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/06/22/panel-enlarges-landmark-zone-and-cites-2-bronx-sites/#comment-696015Could #2 also be one of those that laments the loss of Times Square’s “sexual energy” now that it’s not crawling with hookers and drug addicts? Granted, the “Disneyfication” of Times Square may not be ideal but c’mon…at least one can expect to go there without being mugged now!
]]>By: Georgehttp://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/06/22/panel-enlarges-landmark-zone-and-cites-2-bronx-sites/comment-page-1/#comment-695959
Wed, 23 Jun 2010 13:37:18 +0000http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/06/22/panel-enlarges-landmark-zone-and-cites-2-bronx-sites/#comment-695959@2 — “evil gentrification”?

You mean you miss the urban decay, city bankruptcy and rampant crime of the ’70’s. Or perhaps it’s the crack epidemic and a murder rate that exceeded 3000/year back in the “good old ’80’s” that still leaves your heart all aflutter?

Despite all the ignorant negative ranting here about gentrification — the reality is that this City is one heck of a better place now than it was back then.

If low crime rates, improving student achievment scores, ever increasing tourism, reclaimed nabes like WillyB and Harlem etc. is the “price” of gentrification — I’ll gladly pay it — and so will millions of others.

So the heck with all the gentrification negativism here. Frankly, it’s a tired old rant not worth hearing anymore — get over it.

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Wed, 23 Jun 2010 13:04:39 +0000http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/06/22/panel-enlarges-landmark-zone-and-cites-2-bronx-sites/#comment-695945#2 Okay. Let’s tear down every architecturally interesting building in New York and replace it with modern ill-constructed rot.
I have an idea: Let’s tear down Grand Central Station! Let’s raze the Metropolitan Museum of Art, that old-fasioned hunk of stone!
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Wed, 23 Jun 2010 12:36:14 +0000http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/06/22/panel-enlarges-landmark-zone-and-cites-2-bronx-sites/#comment-695935The Village landmark district needs to be further enlarged just to keep NYU’s expansion in check.

Not that NYU intends to allow itself to be hampered by anything as unimportant as landmark status.

No it saves our City’s architecture and destroys our heritage. It is becoming an easy way to speed up evil gentrification by pricing people out of neighborhoods because of the high price of historical maintainance.